| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide toner and an image forming method for maintaining good image quality over a long period by preventing the toner from melt-sticking to a photoreceptor, even in the case of using small-grain toner in a high-speed digital machine. SOLUTION: As for the toner for visualizing an electrostatic latent image carried on an electrostatic latent image carrier, the electrostatic latent image carrier is constituted of a conductive substrate, a photoconductive layer containing at least amorphous silicone and a surface protecting layer successively layered on the conductive substrate, and the composition of the boundary area between the photoconductive layer and the surface protecting layer is continuously changed, the average inclination Δa of the photoreceptor surface is controlled to be 0.12 to 1.0, the mass average diameter X of the toner is 5 to 12 μm, and also, the number reference accumulated Y of particles having a roundness of >=0.950 among the toner particles having the particle diameter of >=3 μm fetches and satisfies the following expression; Y>=exp(5.51)×X<-0.645> . |
